Employee Performance during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Bibliographic Study from Various Perspectives

Abstract

Impact the Corona Virus Disease (covid-19) pandemic has reduced the stability of the world economy. One of the most common phenomena is the decline in employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to examine employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample of this study includes 27 articles that discuss employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic and the phenomena work from home with an observation period of 2020 to 2022. The study was carried out by classifying articles based on research topics (antecedents and consequences), year of publication, methods used in research (analytical and survey), research sample, the field of science, the country where the research was conducted and the researcher tries to classify based on the factors that affect the performance itself. The results show that the antecedent is the most dominating topic, which has a percentage of 89% of the total articles studied. The year 2021 is when the most studies on employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic are conducted, which is 56%, and the most widely used research method is the survey method, which is 96%. Articles that use a sample of employees at the employee level (employees) are 25 articles, while articles that use a sample of employees at the manager level are only two articles. The grouping based on the field of science that most raised the theme of employee performance during the COVID-19 pandemic was in the area of Economics, which was 70%, then the field of tourism at 15% and medicine at 7%. Then the countries that have an interest in conducting research on employee performance issues during the COVID-19 pandemic are India (26%), Indonesia (19%) and the United States (15%). In addition, the factors affecting employee performance during the covid-19 pandemic mostly come from psychological factors (45%) and factors originating from the organization where the employee works (42%).